Do you walk or drive near the Potomac Avenue Metro Station? If so, you probably realize that this intersection is, to say the least, problematic. Thankfully, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is planning a series of public meetings on pedestrian safety for the Pennsylvania Avenue and Potomac Avenue intersection. It’s an opportunity for the [...]
Tags: DDOT·pedestrian safety·Potomac Avenue·public meeting·safety
Police have released a video that shows two people of interest connected to the Jason Emma homicide, and they are asking for the community’s help. The video, which is a blurry image captured from a nearby elementary school, shows two people walking down the sidewalk. Anyone who can identify these individuals should call police at [...]
As D.C. police continue an investigation into the shooting death of Capitol Hill resident Jason Emma, more violence is being reported this week. On Wednesday night, police responded to an armed robbery six blocks from where Emma was killed. The Washington Post reports that a 37-year-old man was held at gunpoint by another man with a semiautomatic [...]
Tags: Crime·Jason Emma·MPD·Robbery·safety
Metropolitan Police are asking for the community’s help as they continue an investigation into the shooting death of 28-year-old Capitol Hill resident, Jason Anthony Emma, who was found slumped over the steering wheel of his car, which was parked in the 1200 block of C Street, NE early Monday morning. MPD issued an alert and [...]
Tags: Crime·Jason Anthony Emma·metropolitan police·MPD·safety
How did everyone do last night? From the looks of it Capitol Hill fared pretty well in comparison to some of our neighbors to the north, but there’s still plenty of clean-up work from the debris and water damage leftover by Sandy. Here’s a report from Metropolitan Police Department’s Commander Daniel Hickson, summing up last [...]
Tags: hurricane sandy·MPD·natural disasters·Road Closures·safety·Sandy
A Wednesday midday armed robbery has a number of Hill East residents on edge. NBC4 Washington reports that the GameStops at Jenkins Row was robbed by three masked men, carrying two guns. Customers were told to lay on the ground while the men stole money and Xbox video game systems. Meanwhile, the daylight robbery was [...]
If you’re not on vacation these last weeks of summer break you’ve probably heard about at least one of the violent assault crimes that occurred in Southeast on Capitol Hill. Late Friday evening/early Saturday morning Hill resident Thomas Maslin was found in serious condition on the front steps of a home near Eastern Market, badly beaten. He is [...]
Tags: Crime·Eastern Market·police·safety·Southeast
Anne Trenolone, an alert reader and involved community member, sent along some communications she’s been having with DDOT regarding the plans to install a traffic light at 10th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, and many of us at The Hill is Home started to think about the ramifications of getting a light installed there. According [...]
Tags: crazy Maryland drivers·DDOT·editorial·pedestrians·safety·Traffic·traffic light
Drivers consider this your warning: slow down, or a speed ticket will be arriving in the mail. Starting on Thursday, Hill East’s 17th Street corridor, a one-way street running south from Benning Road, NE to Barney Circle, SE, will be the site of a new mobile speed camera. The Metropolitan Police Department announced that they [...]
Tags: Flahaven·MPD·safety·speed camera·Traffic
If your block has been the target of car break-ins or thefts, it’s possible that an absent minded neighbor is partly to blame. “All it takes is one car with a GPS or some other device showing in sight to set-off a series of break-ins,” said 1st District Commander Daniel Hickson. It’s the easy “get” that [...]
Tags: burglary·Capitol Hill·Crime·daniel hickson·metropolitan police·MPD·police·safety·theft·Tommy Wells
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